arXiv Machine Learning

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Theory, Implementations, and Applications

arXiv:2608. 01194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues.

arXiv AI
Jul 2

When AI meets quantum information: A comprehensive review

arXiv:2607. 00365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information (QI) are rapidly co-evolving.

By Min Chen, Yu Gan, Xin Jin, Yuqing Li, Junqi Wang, Zeguan Wu, Yunfei Wang, Bingzhi Zhang, Priyam Srivastava, Tianlong Chen, Ankit Kulshrestha, Yuan Liu, Juan Jos\'e Mendoza-Arenas, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Sarvagya Upadhyay, Xueyue Zhang, Quntao Zhuang, Junyu Liu
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Hybrid Variational Quantum-Classical Framework with Adaptive Weighting and Efficiency Assessment

Hybrid Variational Quantum-Classical Framework with Adaptive Weighting and Efficiency Assessment introduces Sim‑HVQC, a hybrid deep quantum neural network that integrates an adaptive, parameter‑free SimAM weighting module with classical feature extraction to retain class‑discriminative information before encoding into a Variational Quantum Circuit. Unlike prior work limited to binary classification, this framework is trained and evaluated on multiple multi‑class datasets such as MNIST, KMNIST, Fashion‑MNIST, and EMNIST. The study highlights reproducibility, parameter efficiency, and interpretability through multi‑seed evaluation, parameter analysis, and latent/quantum feature inspection, with source code publicly available on GitHub.

By Dilli Hang Rai
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Neural Fourier Surrogates for Data Reuploading Quantum Neural Networks

The paper introduces Neural Fourier Surrogates (NFS), a stochastic classical neural network that learns coefficients over a finite Fourier series support similar to quantum neural networks (QNNs). By testing on tabular benchmark datasets, NFS demonstrates competitive classification performance against established classical baselines and data‑reuploading QNNs. The authors also compare the learned Fourier spectra of QNNs and NFS on synthetic data, positioning NFS as a natural classical baseline for evaluating QNN performance.

By Oliver Knitter, Jonathan Mei, Sang Hyub Kim, Chi Chen, Masako Yamada, Martin Roetteler
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

Stochastic Neural Networks for Quantum Devices

arXiv:2602. 22241v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work presents a formulation to express and optimize stochastic neural networks as quantum circuits in gate-based quantum computing.

By Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Classical and Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning for Trigger-Like Event Selection on CMS Open Data: An Eight-Qubit, PCA-Constrained Benchmark

The paper compares classical and hybrid quantum machine learning models for a trigger-like binary classification task using CMS open data. Eight classical models (SVM, ANN, CNN, LSTM) and eight quantum counterparts are evaluated under identical preprocessing, data splits, and decision thresholds, with performance measured by accuracy, ROC‑AUC, F1‑score, precision, and recall. The best classical model is an artificial neural network (93.53 % accuracy, 0.9819 ROC‑AUC), while the best quantum model is a quantum convolutional network (90.89 % accuracy, 0.9731 ROC‑AUC), indicating that within an eight‑qubit budget the quantum models do not surpass the classical ones.

By Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Awais Rafique, Talab Hussain, Juan Pablo Perez Aguilar, Alfredo Raya, Muhammad Ahsan
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Quantum Incremental Learning with Mixed State Prototypes

arXiv:2608. 10464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incremental learning models are required to learn new classes sequentially without catastrophic forgetting, while operating under parameter and memory constraints.

By Yu Wu, Qianli Zhou, Xinyang Deng, Wen Jiang, Kang Hao Cheong, Witold Pedrycz
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Q-PhotoNAS: Hybrid Quantum Neural Architecture Search Framework on Photonic Devices

arXiv:2605. 22097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic quantum computing is a promising platform for scalable quantum machine learning, but designing effective hybrid architectures remains challenging under hardware and optimization constraints.

By Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan, Gabriel Falcao, Muhammad Shafique